With luted preludes. Imam Hassan then:

"'Tis Zekkar; he, t' whom, with the blind about

The Mosque of Moons, I with our holy men

Scattered my silver at the hour of prayer,

When hearts are open unto Allah's ken.—

Danic or dirhem, though, were wasted there:

Yea, by the Prophet! had one sown dinars

He had not budged one finger or that stare.

And so the beggars and the scavengers

Got all."